Improvement in distilling apparatus



G.E.WERNER. DISTILLING' APPARATUS.

No. 10,463. Patented Jan. 24, 1854 v .Tn: NORRIS mus ca. FNUTO-LITMQ. wunmmou. 04 c.

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IMPROVEMENT IN DlSTlLL'lNG APPARATUS.

I I Q a "1i, 7 Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 10,463, dated January 2!, 1854.

To all whom, it may eon ca iar Be it known that I, CARL E. WERNER, of Newcastle, Logan county, Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Distilling Apparatus for the Manufacture of Alcohol; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed draw- -ing, making part of this specification. v ,The objects of my invention are the guard.

ing the discharge-openings-of the wash-pipes from interruption by the entering steam; the drawing of the beer or wash from the lowermost stratum in every case, so as to carry down thatpart which contains the least amount of alcohol without reducing the desired level of the liquid.

In the accompanying drawing my plan of alcoholic distilling apparatus is,represented by a vertical section.

a is awoodon trough er tube conveying the backward inclination. I consider this back-{ wardly-inclined arrangement of the vaporpipe and the inclosing beer-trough far preferable to any mode of heating by the beer, in which the results of condensation in this part of the vapor-pipe are conducted to the-worm.

,In order that-the entering wash and thc'departing vapor; may have the full reciprocal effect upon each other, the incloscd pipe may be much lengthened and may be in a zigzag or spiral form, but is here abridged for convenience of delineation. This apparatus entirely dispenses with the cold-water condenser and the loss of heat consequent thereon.

The pipes f which conduct the beer and singles from the upper to the lower chambers,

are so constructed that, while they only .let off the contents as they rise above a certain level, the lowest stratum of fluid is first discharged, being that which contains, the least amount of alcohol. These objects I effect by apparatus. bers runs a double wall, a, the two vertical partitions of which close-above the pipe com- -munieatiug';with the vapor of the subjacent encircling thepipe f witha; tubeggg, rises above the pipe to a heightj'greater th I I anypossible ebullition of the liquid, and de tremity of the pipe f stops a little short of the floor of the chamber below, and is surrounded by a'rim, h, which rises from the floor toa suflicient height above the bottom of the pipe f to prevent the entrance-of any of the steam within the said pipe, which steam (rising by ebullition from the low'er stratum of the liquid and seeking the most direct upward channel") would tend to disturb the regularaction of the Across one or more of the chamchamber. .This wall is more eifectual than the'usual cylindrical hoods, as it partially di vides the chamber into twocompartment-s,

and the wash, passing beneath the wall from tion of the vapor from time to time, and may be placed in connection with either of the two lower chambers, as may be deemed-or found to be preferable.

7.21 m n o is a peculiar-arrangement'of dis-v Lcharge pipe and valve combined, and consists cording as one or the other of these apertures is brought over the discharge-pipcf the chamher is at pleasure either kept supplied to the height of the bend of the siphon or emptied.

such lodgmeut or passage of air would tend to interrupt the free discharge of the liquid. The

slop-tub 1) receives thestcanr-pipe (j, and com municates by a neck, f), with the lower chamberof the still. By this means any alcohol remaining in the slop is forced back again into the still. The strike-valves is, by a rod, u, connected to a float, t, so that whenever the stop rises above the desired height the valve is lifited and some of the lower stratum of slop is discharged.

What I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Surrounding the entrance of the conducting-pipe f with an open tubular screen,

' which rises above the pipe-entrance to aheight greater than any possible ebulliti'on of the 1iq-' CARL ERNST -WERNER.

Witnesses: V

GEO. H. KNIGHT, EDWARD H. KNIGHT. 

